Paper 502

Who among the following defended poetry from the attack of the Puritans -

• Aristotle  

• Sidney

• Wordsworth

• Arnold

Who emphasizes upon the idea of “high seriousness” in poetry :

• Dryden

• Sidney

• Wordsworth

• Arnold

Who was the pioneer of historical and comparative criticism in England-

• Dryden

• Sidney

• Wordsworth

• Arnold

Who said that “a play can be written without character but never without a plot”-

• Aristotle

• Sidney

• Wordsworth

• Arnold

Who among the following criticized Wordsworth for his theory of poetic diction-

• Dryden

• Shelley

• Keats

• Coleridge

The “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads” was first published in:

• 1798

• 1800

• 1802

• 1815

5.     Who among the following almost totally neglected the element of ‘pleasure’ in poetry:

• Arnold

• Wordsworth

• Dryden

• Sidney

Who among the following is not a character of Dryden’s “Essay of Dramatic Poesie”

• Neander

• Eugenius

• Lisideius

• Homoerectus

Which among the following is not a theory of Catharsis:

• Purgation theory

• Co-ordination theory 

• Purification theory

• Clarification theory

To Wordsworth which of the following is not the quality of an ideal poet :

• Grater sensibility

• Greater imagination

• Grater observation

• Greater Learning